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Pedagogy (Standard 8)
In addition to knowing students as learners, mathematics teacher candidates should develop
knowledge of and ability to use and evaluate instructional strategies and classroom
organizational models, ways to represent mathematical concepts and procedures, instructional
materials and resources, ways to promote discourse, and means of assessing student
understanding. This section on pedagogy is to address this knowledge and skill.
Standard 8: Knowledge of Mathematics Pedagogy
Candidates possess a deep understanding of how students learn mathematics and of the
pedagogical knowledge specific to mathematics teaching and learning.
Indicators
8.1 Selects, uses, and determines suitability of the wide variety of available mathematics
curricula and teaching materials for all students including those with special needs such as the
gifted, challenged and speakers of other languages.
8.2 Selects and uses appropriate concrete materials for learning mathematics.
8.3 Uses multiple strategies, including listening to and understanding the ways students think
about mathematics, to assess students’ mathematical knowledge.
8.4 Plans lessons, units and courses that address appropriate learning goals, including those that
address local, state, and national mathematics standards and legislative mandates.
8.5 Participates in professional mathematics organizations and uses their print and on-line
resources.
8.6 Demonstrates knowledge of research results in the teaching and learning of mathematics.
8.7 Uses knowledge of different types of instructional strategies in planning mathematics
lessons.
8.8 Demonstrates the ability to lead classes in mathematical problem solving and in developing
in-depth conceptual understanding, and to help students develop and test generalizations.
8.9 Develop lessons that use technology’s potential for building understanding of mathematical
concepts and developing important mathematical ideas.
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